List of people from Bath

A Bathonian is somebody who comes from the city of Bath, England.

This article provides a non-exhaustive list of famous people born in Bath, educated there, prominent in the life of the city, or otherwise associated with the city.

Architecture

*John Wood, the Elder - architect of Queen Square and the Circus
*John Wood, the Younger - architect of the Royal Crescent
*Robert Adam - architect of Pulteney Bridge, also produced unexecuted designs for the Assembly Rooms and Bathwick estate
*Thomas Baldwin - architect of Great Pulteney Street and Bath Guildhall
*Thomas Fuller - emigrated to Canada, where he co-designed the Parliament House in Ottawa
*John Palmer (Bath architect) - architect of the Pump Room and Lansdown Crescent
*C. J. Phipps - Theatre Royal, Bath and numerous other theatres around Britain
*John Pinch - the original Royal United Hospital
*Henry Goodridge - architect of Beckford's Tower, Cleveland Bridge & The Corridor shopping arcade
*Charles Harcourt Masters - Active in Bathwick including Sydney Gardens
*Sir George Gilbert Scott - restoration of Bath Abbey, architect of St Andrew's church destroyed by bombs during World War II
*Sir Thomas Graham Jackson - architect of the World War I memorial aisle Bath Abbey
*Frederick William Stevens - architect, emigrated to India
*Sir Reginald Blomfield - architect of the Bath War Memorial and extension of the Holbourne Museum
*Frederick Gibberd - architect of Bath Technical College

Acting

*Jennifer Biddall
*Julia Davis
*Anthony Head
*Jonathan Hyde
*Andrew Lincoln
*Angelica Mandy
*Leo McKern - Rumpole actor
*Arnold Ridley
*Patricia Routledge - Hyacinth Bucket actress
*Sarah Siddons - 18th century actress
*Indira Varma
*Adam Campbell - actor in Epic Movie and Date Movie

Art

*Thomas Gainsborough - painter
*Sir Thomas Lawrence - painter
* Peter Brown – painter

Education

*Sir Raymond Carr - historian
*Roderick Kedward - British Historian
*Simon Kitson - British Historian
*Sir Isaac Pitman - inventor of shorthand
*William Harbutt - Headmaster and Inventor of Plasticine
*Hugh Wright - headmaster, chairman of the HMC

Entertainment (general)

*Bill Bailey, Comedian
*Beau Nash - Master of Ceremonies in Georgian Bath

Administration of the British Empire

*James Brooke - Rajah of Sarawak

Exiles

*Louis XVIII - prior to ascending the French throne
*Napoleon III - prior to becoming President then Emperor of the French
*Haile Selassie I - during World War II

Film-making

*Ken Loach - film director

Food

*Sally Lunn cake. Probably a corruption of the French phrase "soleil et lune" referring to a type of cake originally made by Protestant refugees from France but [http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/Cakes/SallyLunnCake.htm History of Sally Lunn cake] gives other derivations. A Bath tea shop bears the name.

*Dr William Oliver - inventor of the Bath Oliver biscuit, and one of the founders of the Royal Mineral Water Hospital.

Government

*William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham - Prime Minister and MP for Bath 1757 to 1766
*William Pitt the Younger - Prime Minister
*Sir Henry Cole - Civil Servant
*Sir William Tite - architect and MP for Bath 1855–1873
*Chris Patten - MP for Bath 1979-1992
*Don Foster - MP for Bath 1992 to present

Journalism

*Sir Simon Jenkins

Literature

*Jane Austen - novelist
*William Thomas Beckford - wrote "Vathek" and a series of works on travel
*Charles Dickens - novelist, frequent visitor to the city and set much of the "Pickwick Papers" in the city
*Henry Fielding - novelist
*Morag Joss - novelist
*Samuel Richardson - novelist, he wrote "Clarissa" while living in Bath
*Richard Brinsley Sheridan - playwright
*Tobias Smollett - physician, surgeon and novelist, partially set "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" in the city, wrote essay on the waters of Bath
*Geoffrey Trease - novelist, author of the Bannermere series
*Henry de Vere Stacpoole - novelist, wrote "The Blue Lagoon".
*Mary Shelley - Novelist, author of "Frankenstein".

Music

*Thomas Linley - musician
*Alberto Fernanco Riccardo Semprini - pianist
*Peter Gabriel - musician
*Alison Goldfrapp - singer
*Fabric - musical group
*Naked Eyes - musical group
*Van Morrison - singer
*Tears for Fears - musical group
*Raymond Leppard - conductor, educated Beechen Cliff School
*Eddie Cochran - rock'n'roll musician, died in Bath
*Danny Byrd - Drum and Bass artist
*Frank Yonco - 70s country and western star

The Postal Service

*Ralph Allen (1693-1764) - postal reformer, quarry owner and mayor. Allen developed the first nation wide postal network that did not pass through London.
*John Palmer (1742-1818) - inventor of the lightweight mail coach

cience

*Adelard of Bath - astronomer, philosopher and mathematician
*William Herschel - astronomer, discoverer of Uranus & musician
*Richard Lovell Edgeworth - writer and inventor
*David Hartley (the Younger) - philosopher and inventor
*Richard J. Roberts - Nobel-prize-winning biochemist
*Mike Cowlishaw - computer scientist and engineer
*Thomas Robert Malthus - philosopher and economist

port

*Olly Barkley - England international rugby player
*Roger Bannister - athlete, first man to run sub-4-minute mile
*Jason Dodd - football player, former Southampton captain who holds the record for the most Premiership appearances by an English player without ever being named in an England squad
*Tony Book - football player, former Manchester City captain and manager, part of the Bath based Book footballing dynasty
*Jason Gardener - British athlete, 4 x 100m Olympic gold medallist
*Jeremy Guscott - England and Bath rugby player
*Andy Robinson - rugby coach, former England international team coach and Bath Rugby team coach
*Clive Woodward - British Olympic Committee Director of Elite Performance, former England international team coach and Bath Rugby team coach
*Jack Rowell - Bath Rugby director, former England international team coach and Bath Rugby team coach
*Matt Green professional footballer

Theology & Religion

*John Hales - theologian
*William Jay - Preacher
*Oliver King - Bishop of Bath and Wells, rebuilt Bath Abbey
*Abraham Marchant - Early Mormon leader, settler of Kamas, Utah

Royalty

*Queen Anne - visited the city for treatment for gout
*Queen Charlotte - she spent several months in Bath towards the end of her life
*Edgar of England - crowned king of England in Bath Abbey in 973
*Queen Elizabeth I - on a visit to the city ordered the restoration of Bath Abbey
*Mary of Modena - stayed in Bath for treatment for infertility, after she gave birth to Prince James Francis Edward Stuart she paid for a cross to be erected in what became the Cross Baths
*Queen Victoria - when still a princess stayed in Bath and opened Royal Victoria Park

Warfare

*George Wade - Field Marshal and MP for Bath 1722
*Sir William Edward Parry - rear-admiral and Arctic explorer
*Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson - admiral
*James Wolfe - general
*Harry Patch - World War I veteran and supercentenarian

YouTube Vlogger

*Charlie McDonnell, YouTube name "Charlieissocoollike".

ee also

*Bath, Somerset